Bill Text: NY S04477 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to webpage access to any mobile application used to search for veterans' services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - SIGNED CHAP.488 [S04477 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04477-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4477--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 12, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to webpage access to  any
          mobile application used to search for veterans' services

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 14-a of section 353 of the  executive  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 358 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     3    14-a.  To  establish,  operate and maintain a free mobile application,
     4  under the supervision of the state director, for the purposes of provid-
     5  ing veterans and their family members with information, available  on  a
     6  region-specific  basis, relating to services provided by the division as
     7  well as services and programs provided to veterans by other state  agen-
     8  cies, the federal government, and other organizations. Such services and
     9  programs  shall include, but not be limited to educational and job bene-
    10  fits, tuition assistance programs, survivor benefits, health and  mental
    11  health  referrals,  and  real  property  tax  exemptions. The division's
    12  website shall contain a link to the free mobile application.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10734-03-9